CALL ME SNAKE

I don’t make use of hexagons that much, or as often as I should. But it came up today in a practical problem. The guy running the girls soccer league that I coach in was having trouble coming up with a schedule that kept one team from playing many more games against one opponent than another. A coach in the league said that if you drew a hexagon & had different colored pencils, you could draw lines connecting the vertices in pairs of three and that there were at least five combinations thereof. Which means, following this system, in a 10-game season each time would play any given oponent a total of 10 times. I tried it and it worked. I’m now wondering what else I can do with hexagons.